F/X Menu

Selecting Effects
Special filter dialog box
List of Photonyx F/X

Selecting Effects

To select a filter to apply, open the F/X menu.

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Select a special filter or a submenu of special filters. For example the blur submenu... displays five different blur effects. To choose the specific effect you want to apply to your current project, displace your cursor on the target and when it's highlightened click on your magic left button. Some effects are performed immediately and others offer more options through a related dialog box.

Useful Shortcut : Ctrl + F = recalls the last used special filter

Filter dialog boxes

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One of the great advantages of the default filter palette is the previewing facility and options it offers. Photonyx is most of the time very fast in applying the filters to the whole image (even when applied on large images). If you want to have a near real time preview on the whole project be sure to leave the "Preview" checkbox checked. This will automatically calculate the preview on the main project window. Anyway through the preview pane and it's options you can quickly navigate and preview the result in real time.

Preview pane

In the upper left corner of each filter dialog box you'll find the preview pane.

Left-click with your mice to open the Preview Navigator. Hold on the left button and use the right one to zoom in (+ ctrl key to zoom out) and displace the preview bounding box representing boundaries of the thumbnail you see in the preview pane. In fact, the Preview Navigator works exactly like the Project Navigator except the fact you have to hold on the left button of your mouse.
Actual pixels shows you the image in the preview pane in its real pixel size. It is no more a preview as it shows you the final result of the filter on a smaller part of the real image.
The Full button simply resizes the preview to fit in the preview pane. You get the largest possible entire image that may fit in the preview pane.

It' is really important to note carefully that the following explanations about the handling of the filter palettes only apply to our homemade ones. As with expect in the near futur that many indedependant developers will create and commercialize their own "photonyx compatible" special filters, you should excpect to find different interfaces designs than this one.